Veolia to focus on energy production and green manufacturing

Veolia will shift its business model from waste management towards manufacturing, its executive vice-president for UK and Northern Europe has said.

In an exclusive interview with MRW, Estelle Brachlianoff set out her vision for Veolia over the next five years. She said the UK was a “core market” for the company and that it had has committed around £1bn in UK projects.

“We want to be a real actor of the circular economy, doing a lot more than recycling,” she said. “We want to be a manufacturer of green energy, green products and green compost instead of just being the ones that help you to get rid of your waste.”

The energy will be generated by utilising excess heat generated by the South East London Combined Heat and Power energy recovery facility.

“We will be able to fix the price of energy for heat for the consumers in Southwark in the next 15 years,” said Brachlianoff.

She added that all Veolia’s EfW plants in the UK were already equipped to produce heat for district heating schemes, and that the company would create other schemes if councils or companies expressed interest in working in partnership to build the necessary pipelines.

Brachlianoff’s full interview with MRW will be published in the 7 December issue.

Prince Charles is to launch Business in the Community’s (BITC) ‘Waste to Wealth’ voluntary initiative, which will see signatories commit to “doubling the nation’s resource productivity and reduce avoidable waste by 2030”.

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